Course Title: Health and Physical Education 9th Grade Department: Health & Physical Education
Grade Level: 9
Time Per Day/Week: 42 minutes per day (5 days per week) Length of Course: Year
Primary Resources: Comprehensive Health; Sanderson, Zelman
Units of Study:
Physical Education Units of Study:
Uni 1: Tennis
Unit 2: Flag Football
Unit 3: Swimming & Diving
Unit 4: Water Polo
Unit 5: Personal Fitness
Unit 6: High-Intensity Interval Training
Unit 7: Dance
Unit 8: Volleyball
Unit 9: Archery
Unit 10: Soccer
Unit 11: Pickleball
Unit 12: Basketball
Unit 13: Ultimate Frisbee
Unit 14: Softball
Unit 15: Large group games
Unt 16: Golf
Health Units of Study:
Unit 1: Health Triangle (Mental, Physical and Social Health)
Unit 2: Nutrition
Unit 3: Mental and Emotional Health
Unit 4: Substance Abuse
Unit 5: First Aid
Unit 6: Sleep
Unit 7: Human Sexuality
Unit 8: Tobacco
Unit 9: Relationships
Curriculum-Based Assessments: Pre/Post Test
Standardized Assessments: Fitness Testing (Presidential Challenge and FitnessGram)
Description of Course:
Grade 9 Health and Physical Education are aligned to Pennsylvania Academic Standards, National Health Standards, and National Physical Education Standards. The goal of Health Education is to provide students with the knowledge and skills needed to lead healthy lifestyles. A skills-based approach is a best practice for delivering high-quality health education. Health literacy is an important measure of the effectiveness of health education and is critical to ensuring that students have the ability to be healthy throughout their lives. Health-literate people are able to address their own health needs along with the needs of others. They are able to obtain and apply knowledge and skills to enhance their own health and the health of others — both now and in the future, as their needs change throughout their lives. Physical literacy is the ability to move with competence and confidence in a wide variety of physical activities in multiple environments that benefit the healthy development of the whole person. Physical Education develops the physically literate individual through deliberate practice of well-designed learning tasks that allow for skill acquisition in an instructional climate focused on mastery. During physical education class, students practice the knowledge and skills they have learned through physical activity and bodily movement resulting in energy expenditure.
Course Title: Applied Health & PE Department: Health and Physical Education
Grade Level: 9-12
Time Per Day/Week: 42 min/everyday Length of Course: Year
Units of Study:
Unit 1: Fitness
Unit 2: Track & Field
Unit 3: Ultimate Football
Unit 4: Soccer
Unit 5: Basketball
Unit 6: Pickleball
Unit 7: Floor Hockey
Unit 8: Strength & Cardiovascular Conditioning
Unit 9: Volleyball
Unit 10: Cooperative Strategic Games
Unit 11: Bowling
Unit 12: Dance
Unit 13: Ultimate Frisbee
Unit 14: Swimming
Curriculum-Based Assessments: APE Assessment Checklist, Goal Setting
Standardized Assessments: N/A
Description of Course:
Adapted physical education is physical education that has been modified so it is appropriate for students with disabilities. The goal is of this course is for students to participate in activities where all students can learn and be successful. Quality adapted physical education involves the physical educator differentiating instruction to meet the needs, interests, and abilities of each individual student. That differentiation might involve the teacher adapting/ modifying the content, process, environment, and/or student assessment. Students will follow the current Physical Education 9 curriculum while modifying equipment, rules, prompts, cues, boundaries, playing fields, actions, or time. This course is aligned with the PA Academic Health, Safety and Physical Education Standards and focuses on core strands including Fitness, Individual-Performance, Games & Sports, Outdoor & Lifetime, and Dance & Rhythm.
Course Title: Personal Fitness and Lifetime Activities (PFLA) Department: Health and Physical Education
Grade Level: 10-12
Time Per Day/Week: 42 minutes/every other day Length of Course: Year
Primary Resources: Varies
Units of Study:
Unit 1: Individual/Lifetime Sports (Golf, Racquet Sports)
Unit 2: Personal Fitness (Strength Training, HIIT, Yoga)
Unit 3: Team Sports (Volleyball, Basketball, Ultimate Frisbee)
Unit 4: Aquatics (Snorkeling, Water Polo)
Unit 5: Leisure/Recreational Activites (Disc Golf, Spikeball, Table Tennis)
Curriculum-Based Assessments: Fitness Evaluation & Goal Setting, Unit Concepts/Skills Tests
Standardized Assessments: 12-minute run, Modified Pull-up test
Description of Course:
The focus of this course is to provide students with an opportunity to develop skills and an understanding of personal fitness and lifetime activities. A wide variety of individual, team, and group activities will ensure both non-competitive and competitive experiences. Students will be able to demonstrate competency, refine skills, and analyze performances in a range of activities. Students will also create, implement, monitor, self-assess, and modify a personal health and fitness plan.
